Archive for December, 2009 (5 entries)

Reply to ‘Streams And Sense Making’ of Stowe Boyd

Monday, December 21st, 2009

@stoweboyd wrote a post (’Streams And Sense Making‘) in which he also reacts to my last webtrends post ‘Towards a web of activity streams realizing the synaptic web paradigm‘.
Since my comments on his post became to long I decided to publish it as a post (point taken Stowe :). Although my response is directed to [...]

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Towards a web of activity streams realizing the synaptic web paradigm

Monday, December 21st, 2009

In the previous two weeks I’ve been reading multiple posts and tweets that show the vague contours of a trend towards a new kind of web, the web of (real-time) activity streams. This new web will effectively implement the synaptic web paradigm. In this post I give a rough overview of some of my current [...]

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Already Linked?

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Roughly two and a half years ago, the Linking Open Data community has established itself. The basic idea in this initiative is to publish data in a machine understandable format on the web (RDF and RDFa) and to allow for linking these data sources. Instead of a web of pages that we have nowadays, i.e., [...]

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Is the web establishment overlooking the opportunities of the open social web?

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Already for a long time questions about the future structures of the web unconsciously flow through my mind. Now, in this post I will not give definite answers to those questions (sorry! :-)). But in this context I noticed the news that Yahoo! will allow you to login with your Facebook identity on Yahoo! properties [...]

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Notes on the Synaptic Web: references

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

This post is a part of a post series with notes to prepare a WebTrends article on the Synaptic Web I’m working on. Basically the Synaptic Web revolves around the idea that the structure of, and mechanisms on, the web increasingly resembles that of the neural networks in our brain. This will have, for instance, [...]

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